S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-107.3.I.B

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024

Section 61-107.3.I.B - Definitions

1. "Department" means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

2. "Local government" means a county, any municipality located wholly or partly within the county, and any other political subdivision located wholly or partly within the county when such political subdivision provides solid waste management services.

3. "Person" means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.

4. "Processed tire" means a waste tire that has been cut, shredded, burned, or otherwise altered so that it is no longer whole; or waste tires that have been baled or compacted. The term does not include tire products as described in the waste tire processing permit application and approved by the Department in the permit.

5. "Quantity" means either volume as measured by cubic yard, weight as measured in tons or pounds, or actual number of tires by type.

6. "Residual" means any liquid, sludge, metal, fabric, or by-product resulting from the processing or storage of tires. Residual does not include processed tires held for recycling or disposal.

7. "Solid waste management facility" means any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, or other facility, the purpose of which is the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, recycling, or disposal, or any combination thereof, of solid waste. The term does not include a recovered materials processing facility or facilities which use or ship recovered materials, except that portion of the facility that is managing solid waste.

8. "Tire" means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle, trailer, or motorcycle, as defined in S. C. Code Section 56-3-20(2), (4), and (13). It does not include an industrial press-on tire, with a metal or solid compound rim, which may be retooled.

9. "Tire derived product" means processed tire material that has been sold and removed from the processing facility.

10. "Tire disposal" means to deposit, dump, spill, or place any waste tire, processed tire, or residuals into or upon any land or water.

11. "Tire recycling" means any process by which waste tires, processed tires, or residuals are reused or returned to use in the form of products or raw materials.

12. "Waste tire" means a whole tire that is no longer suitable for its originally intended purpose because of wear, damage, or defect.

13. "Waste tires for agricultural purposes" means waste tires that are generated during the normal production of plants and livestock, and which are kept on-site for beneficial re-use.

14. "Waste tire collection facility" means a permitted facility or a facility exempted from the permit requirement, used for the temporary storage of waste tires.

15. "Waste tire generator" means any person whose action or process produces a waste tire, or whose action first causes a waste tire to become subject to regulation.

16. "Waste tire hauler" means a person engaged in the transportation of greater than fifteen (15) waste tires at one (1) time for the purpose of storage, processing, or disposal.

17. "Waste tire processing facility" means a site where equipment is used to recapture reusable by-products from waste tires or to cut, burn, or otherwise alter whole waste tires so that they are no longer whole. The term includes mobile waste tire processing equipment, waste tire pyrolysis units, and waste tire baling or compacting equipment.

18. "Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.

S.C. Code Regs. § 61-107.3.I.B

Replaced and amended by State Register Volume 39, Issue No. 06, eff. 6/26/2015.